Boosting diethylamine selective oxidation over CuO/ZSM-5 catalyst by CeO2 modification

Selective catalytic oxidation of nitrogen containing volatile organic compounds (NVOCs) is very meaningful but still remains big challenge because it is very difficult to balance the oxidation activity and N 2 selectivity of available catalysts. In order to develop excellent catalysts with high N 2 selectivity in wide temperature window ( △T ) during NVOCs oxidation, CeO 2 modified CuO/ZSM-5 catalysts with different CeO 2 addition order were prepared for diethylamine (DEA) oxidation. Detailed characterizations of catalysts such as XRD, XPS, H 2 -TPR and NH 3 -TPD were conducted, it is found that addition of CeO 2 obviously changes the geometrical and electronic states of CuO active sites in the catalyst, and CeO 2 addition order affects the Ce 3+ ratio on the catalyst surface. Promotion of CeO 2 species enables the generation of more highly active Cu species (Cu + species and finely dispersed CuO clusters) for DEA oxidation; and synergistic catalysis of the Ce 3+ species, active Cu species and acid sites in ZSM-5 leads to the high N 2 selectivity in wide temperature window ( △T ). Compared to the CeO 2 /CuO/ZSM-5 and CuO-CeO 2 /ZSM-5 catalysts, the CuO/CeO 2 /ZSM-5 catalyst exhibits moderate high oxidation activity with T 99 of 230 °C and the widest △T of 150 °C for high N 2 selectivity. Our primary results in this work provide the efficient strategy for improving catalyst employed for NVOCs selective oxidation.